This didn’t make Jesus a “pluralist”, necessarily. “Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord’, will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only the one who does the will of my Father in heaven.” (Matthew 7:21)ģ) Any condemnation of other religions. Do we love even those who persecute us? Do we pray with sincerity? Do we forgive those who do us wrong? Are we liberated from useless worry? He asked people to practice a life of radical compassion. In the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus was focused on good works, not on faith in dogma. Find a heterosexual male who has never lusted for a woman! All heterosexual males are “busted” by this passage, so those in this category would do well to refrain from throwing stones at anybody for perceived lapses in morality.Ģ) Anything to believe in order to gain salvation. The “pelvic issues” Jesus raised in the Sermon on the Mount were limited to male lust for women, heterosexual adultery, and heterosexual divorce and remarriage – all of which he lumped into the same category of sinfulness. To the end of sorting the wheat from the chaff in Christianity, I offer this list of ten things that aren’t in the Sermon on the Mount:ġ) Any reference to homosexuality and abortion. If something is missing from the Sermon on the Mount, we can presume that it didn’t matter much to Jesus. It’s worth reading again and again, not only for what’s in it, but for what’s not. Thank God it’s short! Just his admonition to love my enemies is overwhelming. ![]() I’ve occupied my whole life in a stumbling attempt to live up to it. The Sermon on the Mount has been as much Christianity as I can handle. We can presume that the Sermon on the Mount was Jesus’ “stump speech”, or at least was the essence of his message that his early followers wanted to preserve. Nowhere in his sermon did he suggest that there was more they needed to know from or about him. Jesus addressed a “great multitude” of people who had, in all likelihood, but this one opportunity to hear his “good news”. What’s known as Jesus’ Sermon on the Mount is found in two of the gospels of the New Testament, in Matthew chapters 5-7 and in Luke chapter 6. Please reference Monty Python and the Holy Grail search topic instead.A common Internet meme uses the Sermon on the Mount. The question has been asked more than 883 times on Yahoo Answers, and the top-voted reply is usually either the dialogue from the original film, or the answer generated by Corum. The More Awesome Than You message board uses the question as a registration question. Wolfram Alpha uses Corum's answer, rounded up to roughly 25 miles per hour. Upon being asked, Siri has responded "Assuming a spherical swallow in a vacuum… ah… forget it," but also responds in other ways in more modern versions of iOS. Several systems have the question, or answers to the question, as in-jokes. In 2003, a writer named Jonathan Corum created a site devoted to answering the question scientifically, with the use of "alternate graphic presentations for kinematic ratios in winged flight." He found the following conclusion:Īlthough a definitive answer would of course require further measurements, published species-wide averages of wing length and body mass, initial Strouhal estimates based on those averages and cross-species comparisons, the Lund wind tunnel study of birds flying at a range of speeds, and revised Strouhal numbers based on that study all lead me to estimate that the average cruising airspeed velocity of an unladen European Swallow is roughly 11 meters per second, or 24 miles an hour. It's possible to find discussions on Usenet dating back to at least 1991 where the quote, along with Arthur's response, are quoted both in Monty Python-specific contexts and elsewhere. ![]() The quote has long been an inside joke for fans of Monty Python and also those interested in computing. ![]() Later in the film, Arthur is trying to bypass a troll who asks him "What is the airspeed velocity of an unladen swallow?" Arthur, informed by the earlier debate, asks "What do you mean? African or European swallow?" Since the troll cannot answer this question, he is defeated. King Arthur becomes annoyed and rides away. During this discussion, King Arthur suggests that they could have been brought to England via a migrating swallow, and the castle guards continue to discuss the probability of this suggestion at length, becoming more and more technical in their debate. The guard points out that he has not been riding, as his horse consists purely of the sound of two coconuts being clicked together, and a discussion of where the coconuts could have been obtained follows. In the first scene, King Arthur asks a castle guard if he may be let in, since he has been riding all day to get there. ![]() In the 1975 film Monty Python and the Holy Grail, the discussion of the airspeed velocity of an unladen swallow takes place twice in the film.
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